copperous
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[edit]copperous (comparative more copperous, superlative most copperous)
- Coppery.
- 1870 April–September, Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1870, →OCLC:
- She calls his attention to those copperous clouds beyond the river, and says that the wind is rising.
- 1770, abbé Chappe d'Auteroche, A Journey Into Siberia: Made by Order of the King of France (page 213)
- Calcareous, copperous, greenish stone.